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Computer Review
Computer terms for grades 6-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| blog | an online journal |
| eight | number of bits in a byte |
| Social Networking Site | what S.N.S. stands for - online communication networks, for example |
| a popular social networking site | |
| gigabyte | a unit of memory equal to 1,024 megabytes |
| internet | another word for superhighway |
| Random Access Memory | what R.A.M. stands for |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (abbreviated) |
| browser | an application that allows users to access specific information on the World Wide Web |
| World Wide Web | another term for internet |
| cyberstalking | online stalking |
| cyberbully | an online bully |
| predator | an online stalker |
| clip art | pictures within a program application, that can be copied or inserted |
| images | another term for digital pictures |
| download | retrieve information from one computer and put it on another |
| plagiarism | illegal copying of information or pictures and stating that it is your work |
| virus | a program that destroys files on a computer, and is spread via the internet or contaminated discs |
| password | a secret combination of letters, characters and/or numbers, to access your private files |
| on-line | when one is connected to the internet |
| uploading | putting pictures or files onto a computer |
| multimedia | The combination of text, sound and video used to present information |
| Power Point Presentation | a popular application program used to create slide shows |
| hard drive | computer hardware that stores information inside the computer to be retrieved later |
| software | programs written in code to tell the computer or an application what to do |
| messages typed into a computer to be sent to another computer electronically |